Po portretam

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

This is a sentence from Grossman¹s story ŒMama¹:
ŒKaganovicha, Molotova, Voroshilova ona znala po portretam.¹

I suddenly feel sure about these Œportrety¹.  Are they photographs in
newspapers, or could they be on placards and banners?

The subject of the sentence is the peasant nyanya to Yezhov¹s adoptive
daughter.  Whether or not she reads newspapers is unclear; she certainly
does not have much understanding of what is happening in the country.

Vsego dobrogo,

Robert

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